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Rachel Coldicutt

Can Machines Read?

What does AI mean for authors — and is collective action the solution?

Sep 2, 2023

A screencap of a Mac desktop OS, showing an apparently infinite number of windows embedded within one another

Sep 2, 2023

On Understanding Power and Technology

I went to a Q&A by the “godfather of AI” Geoff Hinton the other night, and was invited to a (mostly) academic dinner afterwards. In the…

Jun 1, 2023

On Understanding Power and Technology

Jun 1, 2023

Easy to use but hard to understand: moving beyond the pitfalls of frictionless digital design

Is it possible to regulate digital design to ensure better outcomes for online consumers?

Jan 13, 2023

A graphic button with the words “add to cart” in white and a finger pointing to the button

Jan 13, 2023

Some things at the intersection of technology and society that will probably happen in 2023

Earlier this week, the 2012 Horse ebooks tweet “Everything happens so much” popped up again in my timeline, like a 10-year anniversary…

Dec 21, 2022

You Retweeted Christine Love @christinelove · Dec 18 lately I think a lot about this. how much could have possibly been happening at the time. surely the frequency of everything happening would we experience in a single day now would have destroyed our minds in 2012 Quote Tweet Horse ebooks @Horse_ebooks · Jun 28, 2012 Everything happens so much

Dec 21, 2022

Three recommendations to improve the safety of safety tech

Earlier this year, I was part of a team working on a piece of research to assess the impact of safety tech on the UK digital economy. My…

Nov 29, 2022

Formal feedback channels for researchers and advocates A safety tech standards and scrutiny body is created Ongoing public engagement and feedback

Nov 29, 2022

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Sunshine Machines: Towards a feminist future of digital care

How infrastructures beyond the market are essential to fostering a more caring digital society.

Oct 26, 2022

A white woman (Donna Haraway) holding her hands to her eyes, with an octopus floating past, and some text overlaid that says, “Our best machines are made from sunshine”

Oct 26, 2022

The Case for Community Tech: Report launch and fund news

Community tech — technology that gives power and generates benefit for communities — is a vital part of the modern technology ecosystem.

Sep 14, 2022

A yellow box with a red diamond on the side, and a blue curve, with illustrations of computing artefacts sketched on top. It has the words “The Case for Community Tech” written over the top.

Sep 14, 2022

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Systemic Digital Care

Exploring innovation as care work

Jul 2, 2022

A blue heart

Jul 2, 2022

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Who owns the future(s)?

Understanding the ingredients for a foresight commons

Jun 24, 2022

Who owns the future(s)?

Jun 24, 2022

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A digital power glossary

What do the words we often use to talk about digital power really mean?

Jun 1, 2022

Four boxes: Box 1: Exclusion in an exclusionary system — Digital injustice, Digital poverty, Digital exclusion, Algorithmic bias, Digital equity; Box 2: Inclusion in an exclusionary system — Digital access, Digital inclusion, Digital ethics, Debiasing data, Algorithmic fairness; Box 3: Recognising power imbalances in an exclusionary system — Digital equity; Digital equity; Box 4: Redistributive and liberatory systems — Digital Justice, Digital Decolonialism, Indigenous Data Governance

Jun 1, 2022

Rachel Coldicutt

Rachel Coldicutt

Exploring careful innovation, community tech and networked care. Day job: @carefultrouble .

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